freight elevator
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3.4
- noun
- /freɪt ˈɛlɪˌveɪtər/
- US
:
elevador de carga
- We used the freight elevator to move boxes of supplies to the storage room.
- take the freight elevator
- large freight elevator
We, we will well access what's the smallest door it's got to fit through Not every museum's got a giant freight door, giant freight elevator.
- We, we will well access what's the smallest door it's got to fit through Not every museum's got a giant freight door, giant freight elevator.
- And so we go inside, meet another escort in there, take us to this freight elevator.
Examples
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They get into the freight elevator and go up.
Fiction book (1996) -
In the freight elevator, he asked, "So, now where do you want to go?"
Fiction book (1992) -
You got a freight elevator here?
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Take 'em down in the freight elevator and out through the back.
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Take the freight elevator to 18.
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To the freight elevator on the other side.
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A large freight elevator took them to the lowest deck.
Fiction book (1990) -
Wayne and I are stuck in a freight elevator in the old warehouse building.
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They get into the bank's private freight elevator.
Fiction book (1994) -
Wills and the kids load the tree into the freight elevator and squeeze in.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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1.0
A machine that carries people and things up and down between floors
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1.9
A machine that carries people or goods between floors
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3.4
An elevator that staff use to move things like large boxes between floors
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Etymology
The term freight elevator comes from the word freight meaning 'goods' and elevator meaning a lift that moves things up and down. So the image is a large, strong lift carrying heavy boxes, and that is why it means an elevator made for goods rather than for 'people'.